Post Your PowerPC Setup

[mikas]

****. To be cleared up.

 

[iBookmaster]

I had a road trip in southern parts of my country, and was pickin up an iMac G4 17". Well the seller had some other Apples to offer, and in pretty much great condition too. Had to buy the G4 cube, a spare one to my existing one. Had to buy the Studio 17" with package, just to complete my selection of this era monitors. 15" Studio, 17" Studio, 22" Cinema Dispaly, 23" Cinema HD Display. And a broken 20" too packaged somewhere in my house, if it was not stolen 6 years ago then we had a catastrofous storage robbering incident at my previous apartment.

The Cube came in original box and packaging with speakers, kbd etc, and a working power supply. All equipmnet were demonstrated as working at premises of the seller. Great guy, got to give respect for taking this good care of his old stuff.

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Ok he had a Mac Plus too, see in first pic. It was in perfectly working order, so of course I took that with me too. 20SC and kbd and mouse too. No packaging though, and off-topic here because no power-PC.

That's the way to make the trip worth it!

 

[mac57mac57]

As regular readers of these forums may know, I have been working extensively on two PowerMac G5 Quads, trying to upgrade the LCS on one of them, and convert the other to air cooling. At this point, the air cooling effort is 100% successful while the liquid cooling effort is still in play. I have also spent a fair amount of time upgrading and loading a PowerMac G4 Sawtooth, and that also has been a 100% success.

The photo below shows my PowerMac G4, G5 work space. This is where the machines come for testing when they get off "the bench" from being worked on. If you spend a little time with the photo, you will see the G5 (Air) Quad at the lower right and the G4 Sawtooth right beside it. I connect the system under test to a wonderful older LaCie 324 24" monitor, supported by a PowerMac G5 original keyboard and Mighty Mouse. These too are visible in the photo.

All in all, it is a great little workspace, and my main desk and Mac Studio are just to the right of what you see in the photo, so I can shift back and forth between the two with ease.

 

[iBookmaster]

As regular readers of these forums may know, I have been working extensively on two PowerMac G5 Quads, trying to both upgrade the LCS on one of them, and convert the other to air cooling. At this point, the air cooling effort is 100% successful while the liquid cooling one is still in play. I have also spent a fair amount of time upgrading and loading a PowerMac G4 Sawtooth, and that also has been a 100% success.

The photo below shows my PowerMac G4, G5 work space. This is where the machines come for testing when they get off "the bench" from being worked on. If you spend a little time with the photo, you will see the G5 (Air) Quad at the lower right and the G4 Sawtooth right beside it. I connect the system under test to a wonderful older LaCie 324 24" monitor, supported by a PowerMac G5 original keyboard and Mighty Mouse. These too are visible in the photo.

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All in all, it is a great little workspace, and my main desk and Mac Studio are just to the right of what you see in the photo, so I can shift back and forth between the two with ease.

I bet Sorbet Leopard runs really good on dual G5.

 

[mac57mac57]

It sure does, @iBookmaster! As I reported quite some time ago, running under Sorbet, the Aquafox 2.2 browser can be used to access even that most demanding of web site types, a bank web site. Sorbet is "greased lightening"... so fast!

I keep hoping that Snow Leopard PPC (SL_PPC) will reach this level of functionality and performance, but my recent retry of it still shows too many basic things that are not up to snuff yet. Nonetheless, I keep my eyes on this development stream... there is so much promise there.

I would love to contribute to SL_PPC, but such a thing is waaaay outside of my skillset and development tools. I am a reasonably skilled programmer, but my professional focus was embedded real time systems, and just for fun, I still develop web sites in PHP, JavaScript and HTML. I also create new software for older systems, specifically DOS (gasp!) and Apple IIGS, but these skills do not translate up to Mac OS X!

 

[iBookmaster]

It sure does, @iBookmaster! As I reported quite some time ago, running under Sorbet, the Aquafox 2.2 browser can be used to access even that most demanding of web site types, a bank web site. Sorbet is "greased lightening"... so fast!

I keep hoping that Snow Leopard PPC (SL_PPC) will reach this level of functionality and performance, but my recent retry of it still shows too many basic things that are not up to snuff yet. Nonetheless, I keep my eyes on this development stream... there is so much promise there.

I would love to contribute to SL_PPC, but such a thing is waaaay outside of my skillset and development tools. I am a reasonably skilled programmer, but my professional focus was embedded real time systems, and just for fun, I still develop web sites in PHP, JavaScript and HTML. I also create new software for older systems, specifically DOS (gasp!) and Apple IIGS, but these skills do not translate up to Mac OS X!

I can't get any weather radar sites to display on Sorbet Leopard. I've tried other user agents but, they never display.

 

[mac57mac57]

Perhaps they are using Flash? No longer supported!